What's the best way to take control of your own life and push yourself against boundaries?

According to Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, it's all about your mindset. Successful people tend to focus on growth, solving problems and self-improvement, while unsuccessful people think of their abilities as fixed assets and avoid challenges.

Dweck says that there are two basic categories that peoples' behavioral traits tend to fall into: fixed and growth mindsets. This infographic by Nigel Holmes summarizes these differences.

The "KIA" or "Know It All" is typically a "fixed mindset "person who don't like to be challenged, look for opinion that are in accordance to what they think is truth and reject any other ideas and basically refuse to learn new things.

So called self-proclaimed "experts" and "gurus" are very intolerant and may not hesitate to attack both verbally and physically those who are different from them.

Back in childhood, kids who were praised for their intelligence rather than for making efforts were less performant when given new tasks

via TeachThought Note this post has been updated from original publishing in February of 2013 Understanding where curiosity comes from is the holy grail of education. Education, of course, is different than learning.

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